Worldwalker Ilm

Lore

Born from the curiosity of an elemental void made manifest, Ilm traversed many worlds with a freedom few can comprehend. Armed with superhuman intellect far beyond the reach of the brightest mages, it is capable of learning many things at an incredible rate. Yet one matter eluded its understanding: the consequences of human emotion. And so it flitted from world to world, departing as soon as its thirst for knowledge was quenched with nary a care for the chaos it left behind. Many tried to trap it in their own schemes, but failed. Their bindings were loathsome things: chains forced with half-meant oaths and tear-soaked promises that it was eager to see broken. And break them it did, snapping them with the simplest of ease. It gave them their darkest desires, untempered by the wisdom of experience. Their screams of agony and joy made no difference to it, for what was momentary emotion to one of the deathless? Yet in its travels, suddenly it found itself branded with the Fuinsignum at its core one day. Curious at this unexpected turn of events, the Worldwalker followed the indelible mark on its essence through time and space into the island of Fuindor, where it hoped to slake its questions with answers wrung from the land's bones...